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We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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12-05-2002, 06:25 AM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,365
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Snow igloos or ice castles?
What can you build in your backyard? Woke up to just over 5 inches of snow on the ground with it still coming down around 5:15 am - 45 minutes later and it's switched over to sleet and ice and they're forcasting about another inch or so of ice accumulations! [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]
All I have to say is that if we lose power and I can't watch Survivor tonight I'm not going to be happy! [img]images/icons/mad.gif[/img]
Seriously - everyone affected stay safe - basically all of Richmond is closed - all schools, city and state offices, malls, corporations (even where I used to work - Philip Morris, which typically takes an act of God to close down!). Accidents are already all over the place. [img]graemlins/ukid.gif[/img]
For all ya'll in the North - don't laugh to hard at how us Southerner's react to snow! [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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12-05-2002, 06:30 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Poinciana, Florida
Posts: 9,422
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Re: Snow igloos or ice castles?
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For all ya'll in the North - don't laugh to hard at how us Southerner's react to snow!
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12-05-2002, 06:57 AM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: jacksonville, fl usa
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 5,790
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Re: Snow igloos or ice castles?
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For all ya'll in the North - don't laugh to hard at how us Southerner's react to snow! [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">I'm not north of you now, but I am from the city that clears it's streets a mere hours after a major blizzard. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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12-05-2002, 07:27 AM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: VERMONT
Posts: 4,201
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Re: Snow igloos or ice castles?
For us it's snow forts followed by snow balls. Although this storm missed us, we still have several inches on the ground from 2 previous storms.
Stay safe Steve (and all the others who aren't used to this type of weather).
A snow day is a gift from Mother Nature. She's telling you to make hot chocolate and popcorn. Get out the board games and spend time with your families. You can even do this with the power out if you add a few candles. We've had power outages that lasted for days and as a kid they were always kinda magical. With no power, everything is so quiet. You get to use a flashlight to go to the bathroom. Board games and reading by lantern light. Of course as a kid, you don't mind skipping a bath for a couple of days if you have an electric water heater! If the power was out too long, Mom would heat water in big stock pots on the stove, so we could have a bath.
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12-05-2002, 07:29 AM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Caribou, Maine
Posts: 790
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Re: Snow igloos or ice castles?
Neither at the moment, but its coming this way! Reports are that Plymouth is likely to get 6+ inches. Guess I'll be canceling choir rehearsal tonight, huh?
Be thankful if you have power. That could change very fast. My sister and her family in Salisbury, NC are without power, and who knows for how long. Those folks just aren't prepared for this stuff. You all are in our thoughts and prayers.
My folks live in Maine, and about 5 years ago, they had a very severe ice storm there. People were without power for weeks! At least most of them have a fire place and/or wood stove. Most southerners don't. My mother always has oil lanterns full and ready to go, too.
So this is one girl who will NOT be poking fun at you all. Tides can turn so soon!
Here's to things getting better for you all real soon......with some pixie dust thrown in for good measure. [img]graemlins/wavin.gif[/img]
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12-05-2002, 07:33 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: The Jersey Shore
Posts: 7,249
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Re: Snow igloos or ice castles?
We have a trace on the ground right now, but should have 6" before it is over. Yuck
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12-05-2002, 08:20 AM
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Community Rank: Navigator 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Tioga County, PA
Posts: 6,102
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Re: Snow igloos or ice castles?
It's snowing at my house. The fine powdery kind. We have about 5 inches on the ground from other storms. None of it is snowman snow. Just the fine blowerble snow.
Stay safe everyone in the path of this. I'm to far west to get much.
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12-05-2002, 08:24 AM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: North Central Ohio
Posts: 21,629
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Re: Snow igloos or ice castles?
We've got enough on the ground to build forts, but it's not the good packing snow. Up North here we know our snow!! Packing snow is good to build with but terrible to have to shovel!! We haven't gotten any additional snow in a couple of days now but it sure is cold!! It was 7 out yesterday morning when I got up but today we're having a heat wave....it's 19!!
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12-05-2002, 09:28 AM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Bozrah, CT USA
Posts: 1,169
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Re: Snow igloos or ice castles?
5 Inches. We are expecting a foot all of the sudden. And we leave for Disney tomorrow. I have already added a night away from home by booking the Hotel at the Airport. Now I can only hope that my plane arrives tonight.
Steve, who up here in the north would pick on the southerners for overreacting to snow and say closing cities. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
In answer to your question. It's snowmen. We make snowmen in a line and then have snowball wars using them as cover.
[ 12-05-2002, 09:39 AM: Message edited by: Bozrah_Disney_Fan ]
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12-05-2002, 09:29 AM
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Illinois
Posts: 1,738
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Re: Snow igloos or ice castles?
We already built a snowman in our yard. Could have built a fort a couple days ago though. [img]graemlins/dizzy.gif[/img]
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12-05-2002, 09:35 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: The land of the free and the Home of the Brave!
Posts: 2,694
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Re: Snow igloos or ice castles?
SPLAT>>>>THWOMP.....I am throwing snowballs! My kids have no school and I am watching them out there throwing snow as we speak....it is a mere 25 degrees here in the burgh! BRRR!
Pa turnpike is basically closed, hubby reported a hellish journey to work this morning, what normally takes him 20minutes took him an hour, he said he was gripping the wheel for dear life whilst he gritted his teeth.
Being that I have boys...we definatly build forts over here...of course there have been snowmen gracing my lawn as well!
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12-05-2002, 10:07 AM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,365
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Re: Snow igloos or ice castles?
We're getting ready to head out for our snowball fight here ourselves! Looks like the worst is now over and underneath the icy crust is fluffy snow!
Of course the dog just messed up a small patch of the yard since "nature called" and the kids are very upset. My youngest asked me if I marked the spot where she did her business with an "x" - I told him to look for the yellow patch and steer clear of it! LOL!
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12-05-2002, 10:19 AM
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Community Rank: Traveler 
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Michigan
Posts: 400
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Re: Snow igloos or ice castles?
We had our big snow fall on Monday(about 4"), but you can't pack it so the kids are upset. The two older boy's understand why they can't build a snowman or have snowball fights, but the girls think It's my fault and that I'm just being mean to them. I tried to explain it to them, but you know how women can be [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/wavin.gif[/img]
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12-05-2002, 10:32 AM
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Wannabe Snowbird
Join Date: May 2002
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 34,137
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Re: Snow igloos or ice castles?
I'm not laughing at you, I laughing with .... Actually, no I'm not laughing at all. Even in Winnipeg that kind of weather hits us hard, and we're "used" to it. I hope you can all make the best of an ugly weather situation.
If it's too cold for snowmen and snowfort building, do what we do every year. Build a quinzee. Basically it's: pile as much snow as possible into a huge pile 5 or 6 feet high (use a snowblower if you have one to save time). Let it settle for an hour or longer. Stick a broomstick or something down from the center so that you'll know where the middle is when you tunnel inside. Then you randomly stick branches about 18 inches long into the snow pile so that they are almost all the way into the snow and it looks like a short spiky porcupine. That's an important step because you need the walls to be about 18" thick. At ground level, dig a little tunnel into the center (broomstick) and then tunnel out the inside and stop digging when you get to the ends of the sticks! Be careful, that much snow can suffocate you if it caves in - that's why we have 2 adults building - one can pull the other one out in an emergency. It takes a few hours, but the kids really have fun. Wiggle the broomstick around to enlarge that hole a bit for ventilation. Once you're finished, you can eventually take off your coats and mittens inside (because the snow is a great insulator) and enjoy a cup of hot chocolate. We have built a bench on one side so you have a place to sit.
Check this out for a little more info: Quinzee
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12-05-2002, 11:41 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: The land of the free and the Home of the Brave!
Posts: 2,694
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Re: Snow igloos or ice castles?
You are way to productive for me Goofymom!
Though it sounds incredibly fun....I am afraid mine would colapse!
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